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My daughter's with you on that one. She will doodle on the fronts of the "fun pad" pages but she declines to follow the instructions. They just aren't what she wants to draw.

And thank you for the note re: the house. I would forward it to the property manager but I keep talking to him about my knitting and my spinning wheel and my loom in the hopes that he'll think I'm a polite little old knitting granny. I think if he read my blog we'd be out of luck.

Ay yes, the fun pads. I liked the 'colour in the picture' bits, as long as they weren't too prescriptive. Lots of B&W line art to doodle with was great. Painting by numbers was NOT.

That said, I have vague memories of knitting a barber-striped tank top for my barbie-clone (flat and seamed, no less) when I was actually young enough to be playing with a barbie without feeling self-conscious.

The only thing I remember related to attempting to draw was Mark Kisler's Draw Squad. Supposedly anyone could learn to draw after going through the books. Well, that book confirmed that I have no visual artistic talent whatsoever.

My Dad used to bring home the BEST drawing books. He was an electrical fitter so they'd regularly throw away these enormous books of electrical plans (whatever they're called). They were blank on one side and the biggest sheets of paper I had ever seen!

I took one to school one day and even though I rolled it up as tight as I could, it filled my whole backpack and I could only just pick it up. There was just enough space left for my pencil case and my knitting (dolly cothes, if I remember correctly. Well it was grade 3!)

I'm reading all of your comments and I have decided that I have a problem with the term "fun pads". It just sounds like some sort of nasty anatomical reference. You know "button up, honey, everyone can see your funpads!"

Hence it was that Aunt Cookie (that would be me) would give her daughter and each of her neices and nephews their very own ream of paper, crayons, colored markers and as they grew a little older color pencils, watercolors and (parents permitting) finger paints and/or acrylics.

Now that the daughter is older and has her own lady love, they get blank canvases, new paintbrushes, acrylics and oils and charcoal and erasers, oh my! And blank sketchbooks. And film. Sometimes camera accessories.

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